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Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : New York : The Century Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by New York : The Century Company. This book was released on 1920 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : WALTER. VAUGHAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033716601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)
Download or read book LIFE AND WORK OF SIR WILLIAM VAN HORNE written by WALTER. VAUGHAN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230295442
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIX PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS. PORTRAITS. FRIENDS. G. T. BLACKSTOCK'S APPRECIATION. A S has so often been stated in the preceding pages, Van Home was blessed with a rare phys JL JL ical endowment. He was tall and massively built, and carried himself with the native dignity of a courteous, high-bred gentleman. His head was of noble proportions; his eye clear and penetrating; his features refined, mobile, and expressive of his moods. In conversation his face was constantly lighted up with a merry twinkling smile. His laugh was hearty and jovial. At work with his secretary, dictating letters to the four corners of the globe, he seemed the embodiment of energy, blowing smoke like a factory as he sought in his mind for a word--the most precise--and winding up a letter with a sentence or a phrase like a shot from a cannon. In a business interview he faced his caller, straddling his chair, leaning his arms upon the back, and alternately puffing smoke and flicking the ash from his cigar upon the carpet. His attitude in repose was frequently one of the most rapt absorption. This he would maintain for several minutes as he stood, for instance, before one of his pictures. It conveyed the impression that he saw through and beyond the obvious features of the painting, and was apt to be disconcerting to a less enthusiastic companion. Equally disconcerting were the occasions on which he would apparently ignore a question and delay replying so long that when the answer came, the questioner had forgotten the subject of his enquiry and wondered what Van Horne was talking about. At Covenhoven when, with his two pet collies bounding after him, he took a guest for a walk, he would stop here and there and apparently lose himself for a long interval in...
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440034138
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Vaughan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne Much of this volume, then, is frankly based on Miss Hughes's material, and wherever it has been possible I have used and adapted her rough narrative. If, there fore, these pages be deemed to have any merit, a large share of it must be credited to Miss Hughes. For their demerits I am alone to blame. Per contra, any writer who has had to rely to a large extent on material selected by another will appreciate one of the difficulties under which this book has been written. I wished to include some account of Van Horne's im pressions of his earlier visits to England and the great art centres of Europe, but no records are available. A man who travels forty or fifty thousand miles ayear and enjoys unlimited franking privileges over cable and telegraph lines is not apt to devote much time to letter writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Walter 1865-1922 Vaughan
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363811427
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)
Download or read book LIFE & WORK OF SIR WILLIAM VAN written by Walter 1865-1922 Vaughan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Valerie Knowles
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 177070163X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book From Telegrapher to Titan written by Valerie Knowles and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction , the 2005 University of British Columbia Award for Best Canadian Biography, and the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Award for Best Railway Book of the Year. William Van Horne was one of North America’s most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, he became a prominent railway figure in the United States before coming to Canada in 1881 to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Railway. Van Horne pushed through construction of the CPR’s transcontinental line and went on to become company president. He also became one of Canada’s foremost financiers and art collectors, capping his career by opening Cuba’s interior with a railway.
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642967
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Literary History of Alberta Volume One written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid impressions on all of Alberta's writers--both those who passed through Alberta in search of other horizons and those who made it their home. The Literary History of Alberta surveys writing in and about Alberta from prehistory to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes profiles of dozens of writers (from the earnestly intended to the truly gifted) and their texts (from the commercial to the arcane). It reminds us of long-forgotten names and faces, figures who quietly--or not so quietly--wrote the books that underpin Alberta's thriving literary culture today. Melnyk also discusses the institutions that have shaped Alberta's literary culture. The Literary History of Alberta is an essential text for any reader interested in the cultural history of western Canada, and a landmark achievement in Alberta's continuing literary history.
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Wayne Larsen
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459724348
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 26–30 written by Wayne Larsen and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: nineteenth century railway builder William C. Van Horne; early nineteenth century governor and fur baron George Simpson; legendary Group of Seven-associated landscape painter Tom Thomson; intrepid early frontiersman Simon Girty; and Canada’s first world-famous movie star, Mary Pickford. Includes William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford
Author : Julie H. Ferguson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459724380
Total Pages : 1315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30 written by Julie H. Ferguson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer Robertson Davies; and early movie star Mary Pickford. Includes Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford
Author : Judith Fitzgerald
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459728343
Total Pages : 4324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle written by Judith Fitzgerald and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 4324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of these figures are truly famous, while others were quietly influential. Among the wide variety of people we meet are: prime ministers (Mackenzie King, Macdonald, Laurier, and more); artists (Emily Carr, Tom Thomson); explorers (David Thompson, Samuel de Champlain), politicians (René Lévesque, Joey Smallwood), writers (Robertson Davies, Gabrielle Roy), entertainers (Emma Albani, Mary Pickford), activists (Nellie McClung, Louis Riel, Harriet Tubman), and many, many more. Let this series be your primer on the greatest figures in Canadian history. Includes Emma Albani Emily Carr George Grant Jacques Plante John Diefenbaker John Franklin Phyllis Munday Wilfrid Laurier William Lyon Mackenzie King René Lévesque Samuel de Champlain John Grierson Lucille Teasdale Maurice Duplessis David Thompson Mazo de la Roche Susanna Moodie Gabrielle Roy Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford Harriet Tubman Laura Secord Joey Smallwood Prince Edward, Duke of Kent John A. Macdonald Marshall McLuhan
Author : Ron Graham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773554769
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Obsession written by Ron Graham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Van Horne (1843–1915), a gifted connoisseur most famously associated with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, amassed of one of the most extensive collections of Japanese ceramics in North America. Obsession is an illuminating account of the how and why behind his passion for studying and acquiring nearly 1,200 objects. Ron Graham assembles a profile of Van Horne's larger-than-life personality as well as essays about his place at the top of the art collectors in Montreal's Golden Square Mile and the afterlife of his collection following his death. Accompanying the texts are historical photographs and documents, a detailed catalogue of over three hundred individual pieces in the Royal Ontario Museum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and a selection of beautiful reproductions of Van Horne's personal notebooks and exquisite watercolours from the archives of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Obsession presents a remarkable collection in the context of the life and career of a nineteenth-century Canadian business giant.
Author : James H. Hitchman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 940150749X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Leonard Wood and Cuban Independence, 1898–1902 written by James H. Hitchman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Military Government of Cuba from 1898 to 1902. Tracing and explaining the actions of General Leonard Wood's adminis tration during those years reveals how the United States Government re solved the questions of independence, strategic security, and economic inter ests in regard to Cuba. Leonard Wood, Secretary of War Elihu Root, Senator Orville H. Platt, and President William McKinley formulated and carried out policies that had a strong influence on subsequent Cuban-American relations. The broader aspects of this study, civil-military relations and American imperialism, are topics of importance to all citizens today. This is institutional and biographical history, written in the belief that a full ac count of the men, action, and circumstances will add to our understanding of the period when the United States emerged as a world power. I am indebted to Professors Gerald E. Wheeler of San Jose State College and Armin Rappaport of the University of California, San Diego, who di rected my research in the early stages, and to Professor Eric Bellquist of the University of California, Berkeley, for his criticism of the manuscript when it was in dissertation stage. To Professor Raymond J. Sontag I would like to pay special tribute for his guidance and inspiration through the years. The assistance of my mother, Mrs. Sue Hitchman, is deeply appreciated. My thanks go also to the staffs at the Library of the U. S.
Author : Newton Free Library
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Newton Free Library Bulletin written by Newton Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (951 download)
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